The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.